DefenceSynergia (DS) is grateful to The Soldiers’, Sailors’ and Airmen’s Families Association (SSAFA) for permission to reproduce their worrying findings when they recently polled civil recruiters and members of the public on the subject of retired British Armed Forces personnel. The DS perception, which follows on from our view that the Ministry of Defence (MOD) Continue reading
During the early days of WW2, the Royal Air Force was tasked to drop propaganda leaflets over Germany as a means of communicating directly with the German people. A Fleet Street journalist asked to publish a copy of one of the leaflets but was told by a Civil Servant, without irony, that they could not Continue reading
National Defence & Strategy Research GroupExposing the incoherence and weakness in the United Kingdom’s Defence and Security StrategiesHer Majesty’s Government – Crisis Management and Strategy
DefenceSynergia is pleased to publish below the verbatim text of a speech given by the Chief of the Air Staff, Air Chief Marshal Wigston, at the Defence & Security Equipment International DSEI 2019 A very good morning everybody. I am delighted to be back at DSEI, which continues to grow in scale and stature as Continue reading
DefenceSynergia is pleased to publish the full text of the First Sea Lord, Admiral Radakin, speech to Defence and Security Equipment International 11th September 2019 Ladies and Gentlemen, good morning. I am delighted to be here, and I’m particularly delighted because this is my first DSEI. And I know everybody is now wondering how on Continue reading
National Defence & Strategy Research Group Exposing the incoherence and weakness in the United Kingdom’s Defence and Security Strategies DefenceSynergia (DS) is concerned that Her Majesty’s Government (HMG) is dysfunctional when managing crises and we are in severe danger of being wrong footed by the burgeoning ambitions of the Peoples’ Republic of China (PRC), Russia Continue reading
DefenceSynergia (DS) is most grateful to Prof Dr Julian Lindley-French for permission to publish his latest commentary making A Plea for the New European Realism on this the 80th anniversary of Great Britain’s declaration of war. DS holds the view that Strategy should be articulated so that departmental plans can be coordinated and cohesive – Continue reading